Starlight Satation: Lesson 5

Servant Leaders Work hard to Help Others:

Bible VerseEcclesiastes 9:10

Hard and Easy:parents, assign each child in your family a very specific task. It might something like picking up pillows and putting them back on the couch or folding the laundry. For the first few seconds tell them to work really hard at it and then tell them to slow down and do it very easy, almost in slow motion. Go back and forth between hard and easy as they are performing the task. After they have finally completed the task, ask them if it was better to do the task head or easy. Talk about how much faster they could have finished the project if they could have finished the project if they could have worked hard all the time. Just like in this project, God wants us to work hard to help others in everything we do.

Bible Story:Genesis 39:2-6, 39:21-23 and 41: 37-57

Helping Out:Talk about how important it is for us to work hard to help others. One way to live that out is to find a project at church that everyone could participate in. It may be helping to set up for an event, cleaning up after services one weekend, or simply picking up trash around the church campus. While you are doing the project discuss with your kids how you are obeying God by working hard to help other people.

Starlight Station Week 4

Main Point: Servant Leaders Use their Gifts to Help Others

Bible Verse: 1 Corinthians 12:7






What's my gift?


One day this week, have each person in the family take turns telling one another what gifts they see God has given them. Some examples would be the gift of serving people, gift of teaching someone, gift of generosity, or the gift of encouraging people. Ask each person why they think God gave them those specific gifts. Help each person come up with specific ways they can use those specific gifts to help others. have everyone write or make a list of reminder notes of things they could do to use their gifts like God would want them to.





Bible Story: Genesis 40:1-41:44





Matching Gifts & Needs:


God has given each person in your family unique gifts. To help make this point, wrap up a box like a present and have each member of your family write down specific gifts on a piece of paper then put it inside the box. Let each person do this several times. Each day during the week have one person pull out a "gift". Have each member of the family come up with a way they can use that gift this week. Pull out a new gift each day.





Pray that God would continue to develop the gifts that he has given your children.





Barry Saunders

Starlight Station Week 3

Week 3

Bible Story: Genesis 39:1-23

Main Point: Servant Leaders Protect Others

Bible Verse: Proverbs 12:26

Our verse this week tells us that if we are following God's ways we will give our friends good advice and try to keep them from making the wrong choice.

Protecting Others:

One day this week, play a game of keep away. Have one member of the family be the protector and another member be the person needing protecting. The rest of the family would be would try to get to the one needing protection while the other one does everything they can to protect them. Another way to play this game would be to have one person protecting and household item and the other person tries to get it. After playing the game talk about how you should be aware of situations where someone might be in trouble and need protection. Talk about some different situations. Some examples might be standing up to a bully for them, warning them about a situation, to helping them talk to a teacher if they did something wrong. Protection could also mean helping someone escape from certain situation. Protection means getting involved and putting yourself in front of the thing or person that you care about.

Look For Protection:

While in the car this week, spend some time talking and looking for some of the different laws that we have in our city and state. Talk about how these laws are set up by people that we have never met, and they are to protect us. They warn us about unsafe situations or keep us from getting into a dangerous spot. Some examples would be the speed limit, stopping at a red light, or crosswalks at school. Talk about haw all of these laws are there to protect us.

Servant Leaders Protect Others